Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-15

DAILY HERALD.
THE SOUTHERN BOOM.
Pleasant Trip Through the
Central Portion.
OCULAR DEMONSTRATION.
A View of the Boom two Hundred
and Seyenty-five Miles
in Length.
THE SOUTHERN BOOM.
OCULAR DEMONSTRATION.

in Length.
To give the readers of the HERALD
complete information about the extent
Of the industrial boom that now prevails
in South California, HERALD represen.
tstive. in addition to lateral visits from
the city into the fourishing towns around
Los Angeles and San Bernardino, has
taken line obliquely through the boom
ing region to notice how the work goes
on. The line travelled was from San
Buenaventura, through Ventura county.
Los Angeles county. San Bernardino
and San Diego counties.
The town of San Buenaventura, SO
beaatifully situated for commerce, be.
tween the mouths of the Ventura and
the Santa Clara rivers directly on the
Sbay with a wharf aud direct shipping
facilities by sea to foreign markets for
her grain. oil, fruit and wine, and hav-
ing also the Southern Pacific Railway
Company with it's new and powerfully
equipped line passing through the place.
connecting it with railway lines to all
parts Of the United States is certainly
fitted for business prosperity. 1t draws
to its warehouses the produce of the
rich valleys OF DIAL, Santa Clara, Ven.
tura and others, and the trade of these
rich valleys and the honey which is
gathered in tine mountains and
the vast supply of petroleum that
comes down from the Sespe wells, and
large trade in live stock besides. 1t is
needless to say that with ell these ad-
.yanrages San Buenaventura is partakiug
of the general bosm. A street railway
Is to be made up the Ventura valley,
splendid hotel is being erected by L. J.
Rose, Jr., Of Los Angeles, and fine
dwellings, are being erected on the beau
,tiful heights overlooking the bay and
the islands. On all sides the work of
improvement is going forward with a
rush.
Beautiful Saticoy. eight miles east, is
nestled among her noble grain fields and
orchards, but has caught the spirit of
Improvement and is building and beau
tifying her charming borders.
Ellk VI AtuCo LuIbAGA C03e Seonuo ehu
live and busy town of Santa
Paula that will soon put on the
dignity of q city, On all sides the
homes of prosperous people are being
beautified and new houses are springing
up in all directions. The great oil wells
OF the Sespe have here their vast stor-
:. age for oil. which Is shipped in pipe
to San Buep paventura and Huereme for
shipment In bulk to San Francisco in
steamers and schooners, and is also
piped to Newball for refining or ship
ment by rail. Count Santa Paula on
boom.
Fillmore, q new town on the railway
east of Santa Paula, is just springing up,
and across the river Santa Clara the new
settlement of Bardstown is pushing for
ward boom.
Newhall. after remaining quietly pros
porous for several years, is now starting
90 show building boom.
San Fernando, Burbanks and Glendale
are rivaling each other with a genuine
boom. Next comes
LOS ANGELES CITY,
Where the boom has rsged for three
years and is now more active and grand
than ever. The improvements going
forward could not be described in a
whole issue of the HERALD.
Passing eastward through Garvanzo,
Pasadena. Olivewood, Alhambra, Ramo-
ma, Lamanda Park, lovely Arcadia, with
her new perfume farm aud other steady
improvements; Monrovia, with its mag
ical march; Dusrte, with its new. born
enterprise and thrift; Azusa, which
builds house per day and is now vii
lage, although but two months old;
Gladstone, which is full of improvement
and covered with fruit on every hand
Glendors, which is building lively
and largely; Lordsburg, which is
in lively commotion of house
and hotel building all the time:
Pomona building faster than ever be.
fore; Claremont pushing forward as q
competitor with Lordsburg; Palomares
with its rapid improvement and supply
of grain and fruit; North Ontario with
its cement walks, rising houses and no
eel, all just emerging from the BRUSH
land; Marquette, which was chapparel
few days since, and now has a hetel,
livery stable and three stores and dwell.
ings; North Cucamonga, with its i'm
nepse improvements, beautiful vine
yards and orchards-all these show a
steadily onrushing boom at fever heat.
Every man is busy and there are not
men enough to do the work ready for
their hands.
On arriving at San Bernardino great
improvements spread out on evory side.
The sound Of the saw, the hammer, the
trowel, the ironsmith fill all the day.
Cotton comes next, and each week
exhibits new roofs, new depots, tracks
and manufactures, and its canning fac
tory swallowing the fruit crop.
Leaving Cotton to her steady progress,
Riverside is reached, and there great
improvements are going forward ia the
erection of fine buildings, making of i'm
proved sidewalks snd grading and max.
ing of streets. improving of great fruit
packeries, and planning for half-mil-
lion hotel.
Leaving the Riverside boom, which is
strong enough to go alone, to take care
of itself, Perris station is reached, where
prancing stages as in the olden time
came dashing in to meet the train from
San Jacinto, about eighteen miles away
in the grand San Jacinto valley. The
town Of San Jacinto is one of the most
prosperous in the county of San Diego
and will soon be the second in size if it
is not already, in the county. Artesian
wells send up vast volumes of water
that are used largely in raising alfalfa,
corn and garden products. The alfalfa
crop is simply immense at this place,
and the town although but about four
and bali years old, has more than
thousand Inhabitants, fine schoolhouses,
churches, large commercial buildings of
brick and is now a heavy exporter of
produce. The people are hard at work
IN genuine boom which they have had
now for q long time.
Elsinore, situated on the shore Of
beautiful lake, the waters Of which are
alkaline, is beautiful town with q
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